Clock Joke Exchange About a Motto
Mashington remarks on a stopped clock while Tailor says he never winds it, using it as a motto. Mashington questions the meaning as Tailor insists there is no tick.
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Newspaper
Waunakee News
Location
Waunakee, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1899
Page
2
Riding Plow Innovation and the Fuller Johnson Round Robbin
A Madison Wisconsin firm reports a new riding plow that rises over stones and re-enters ground without stopping. Fuller Johnson Manufacturing Company promotes a free Round Robbin explaining the device and praising Santiago victory. A hold up in Minneapolis flouring mill ends with two captured. one escapes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fuller & Johnson Manufacturing Company
Dickinson Street
Madison
Wisconsin
Santiago
Cuba
Robbin
Fuller & Johnson
Shafter
Fuller & Johnson Company
Minneapolis
Grain-O saves children from tea and coffee
Advert warns against tea or coffee for children and promotes Grain-O as a nourishing coffee substitute. Grain-O, made of pure grains, costs about four times as much as coffee and is sold by all grocers. General Funston reports two Filipino prisoners killed at Caloocan by enlisted men, not officers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Funston
Caloocan
Obituaries and health ads from a late 19th century page
The fragment lists multiple deaths including Miss Mary Berg of Portland Center who died at P Brink's home in La Crosse and farmer Fred Prestine near Pesh tigo who collapsed from heart disease. It also notes Amanda E. Wheeler an old resident of Vaneaville died at 51 and references remedies and tonic advertisements from era doctors and stores in Milwaukee Philadelphia and England.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Berg
Portland Center
P. Brink
la Crosse
Amanda E. Wheeler
Vaneaville
Five Drops touted as cure for rheumatism
Mrs R Williams of Fosterville Ark writes Sept 26 praising a sample of 5S Drops claiming relief for eight years of neuralgia rheumatism and partial arm paralysis. She orders a dollar bottle and says one half cured her mother. SWANSON RHEUMATIC CURE CO Chicago advertises a dollar bottle with 300 doses. Also notes United States transport Grant arriving in San Francisco from Manila and the death at sea of Oscar Moody, a discharged soldier, on November 30.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. Williams
Fosterville
Ark
Swanson Rheumatic Cure CO
East Lake Street
Chicago
United States
Grant
Manila
San Francisco
Oscar Moody
Cure a Cold in One Day Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets
Ad copy claims a one day cure for colds with Laxative Bromo Quinine tablets and a money back promise. Mentions E W Grove signature on each box and dealer refunds if not effective. Also notes Hall Catarrh Cure and Archibald Coolidge at Harvard donating 10,000 volumes on the crusades to the university library.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. W. Grove
Archibald Cooledge
Department of History
Harvard University
University
Grain O Drink Promoted as Coffee Substitute
A newspaper promotion urges readers to try Grain O as a coffee substitute made from pure grains with the rich color of mocha. It claims to suit children and adults and to sell at the price of coffee per package through grocers. Mrs Russell Sage comments on marriage prospects for poor young men.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Zoe
Russell Sage
Canadian Excursions Via Wabash Line Holiday Sale
The Wabash offers holiday excursion tickets from Chicago to Canadian points at a single low first class fare for round trips on Dec 14 to 17 with return validity to Jan 6, 1900. Information and time card details available at the Wabash Ticket Office 97 Adams St Chicago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wabash
Chicago
Warner
Pee
F. A. Palmer
A.G. P A
Wabash Ticket Office
Adams St
P. H. O'Brien Dies at 70 in Augusta
The obituary notes that P. H. O'Brien, aged 70, has died in Augusta. Local reports provide no further details on the funeral or surviving relatives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
P. H. O’brien
Augusta
Combination Book Case Offers Great Value at Smyth Co
The John M. Smyth Co of Chicago promotes its three decade presence at 150 to 166 West Madison with a wide illustrated catalogue. A sample combination bookcase priced at 10.95 is highlighted as a leading value among thousands of household items. Lloyd Lowndes Jr. and May Campbell Quinn wed in Chillicothe Ohio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John M. Smyth Co
West
Madison Street
Chicago
John M. Smyth Company
Lloyd Lowndes, Jr
Governor Lowndes
May Campbell Quinn
Chillicothe
Ohio
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Buckingham
Lane
S von
Mawaukee
DL Diesson & Co
Fred Prestine
Peshtigo
Piso
William Nagle
Spencer
Colby
Eva Alber
Rubicon
Kive
Dr Kline
Arch Street
Philadelphia
Samuel May
Liecester
Mass
J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
Hall
Wabash Line
Eid
Pach Eno Ei
Bry Beker
Ian Effects
Alifsania
Baraboo
Wis
Red Cross
Hubinger
Sen
C.D
T. M. Roberts
Eire Reg
J—Gane Ae
Minn
Mammoth Mail Order
Ae i
NPN
O'Parrell
Pansion
Washington
WIS Pub Union
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